The Government Inspector and Other Works EPUB
by Nikolai Gogol
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Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in Russia, and Gogol's stories present us with one of the most marvellous worlds a writer has ever created. His quirky characters - the lowly official who imagines himself to be the King of Spain, the man committed to chase his nose around St. Petersburg, a whole village paralyzed at the prospect of being visited by an authority from the capital - are immortal. Although Gogol's fiction was commandeered by Russia's progressive critics as the work of an important social commentator, he was in many ways an arch-conservative, and there is a madcap strain in it that makes him a precursor of Kafka and absurdist drama.
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- Pages:588 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:01/10/2014
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:588 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:01/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781848706101
